Day 92

'It's been too long', Pen on Paper

Something that I find I've often had a problem with is keeping in touch with people, It is something I think that we are all guilty of at some point or another and for any variety of reasons it can happen all too easy. What normally happens is we meet someone and for that span of time, however long or short, that we are interacting regularly or intensely we form a very solid bond and that person becomes a major part of our life. We've done this all throughout our lives from our homes, at school, at work, at parties, nights out and pretty much any time we interact with someone. The inevitability is though that we move house, we finish school, we get a different job and we don't go out as much or even to the same places. What this means is that those solid bonds that we once generated become unstable and slowly dissipate as our live takes a different direction and we find ourselves not being in the company of that person or persons as frequently. The strange thing is that most people are just a phone call, a text, an email or even a short journey away but we always find some way of perpetuating our inability to make a concerted effort. We tend to blame work, our busy schedules, we prioritise other people or events as being more important and in some cases we take the stance that they haven't made the effort then why should I? We all have the ability to reconnect with people fairly easily these days but we don't normally take the opportunities that are presented to us on a daily basis. It's something that I think we could all work on and how this fits with the drawing today is that the teddy in the drawing is for a friends of mines baby. As you can see from the drawing I still have the present and it has certainly been too long since I was originally to visit, which I feel pretty guilty about but I intend to rectify that soon. So if you're reading this and you can think of anyone that you haven't spoke to in a while I'd recommend giving them a shout it's always good to catch up.